The Glass Industry
0209, 2022

The Glass Industry

…1974 advertisement. The company’s trademark was a small Derrick emblem to show the production site as Oil City. Employment Hits 450 In 1969, the National Can Corp. bought the local…

Grand Spectacles
0312, 2021

Grand Spectacles

…train depot, a site that would later be the location for a Holiday Inn motel. Serving as volunteers were Boy Scouts, National Guardsmen and Legionnaires. A first aid station was…

State Street Bridge
2705, 2022

State Street Bridge

…was steel mesh on both the two-lane roadway and the dual pedestrian walks. The Holiday Inn was constructed at the site of the former railroad freight stations in the mid-1960s….

Siverly
1703, 2023

Siverly

…ingredient in Siverly’s prosperity was the railroad that pegged the borough as a major engine switching site. That prompted the majority of the railroad employees to live in Siverly –…

Oil City Library

…Carnegie donate money for a library. He did agree to donate $44,000 to build the library provided that the citizens provide a site and guarantee $3,000 annually to maintain it….

Grove Hill Legends
1509, 2023

Grove Hill Legends

…Street on the Clark’s Summit hilltop. The site boasted a racetrack, residential lots and a 1,600-foot long incline railway that led up to the top of the hill. While the…

Ducks and Roses
0402, 2022

Ducks and Roses

…and a decline in demand brought the end to the highly successful duck business. The farm remained a chicken-raising and limited dairy production site. In the late 1920s, grocer Oscar…

100 Years of YWCA
1202, 2024

100 Years of YWCA

…the members would reorganize as the new Oil City YWCA. The meeting locations were varied as no permanent headquarters had yet been established. The first site for the new organization…

Old Money
2909, 2023

Old Money

…a winter home, a 15-bedroom mansion along the sand at Miami Beach, that they eventually sold to Harvey Firestone. It later became the site of the huge, $14 million Fontainebleau…